I ain't objecting to HOA. I'd love to have a HOA system again for normal listening; I /have/ heard it and agree it is good. But two things argue against it: 1.) Cost for a home installation. Despite what I wrote in an earlier message today, it was hard work to assemble even 8 /good/ speakers cheaply. I got them for HOA, but I probably will not use them for it, at least not for long, because 2) Having lots of speakers on one room is not compatible with home harmony or with visual aesthetics. Sadly, that is the killer.
Bandwidth, storage, processing power? Yes, they are all affordable now. Now we need to find a solution to my point 2 above - and that is not an Ambisonics problem! In practice, Ambisonics is most useful as a production tool. Only a dedicated few will use it in a home environment. Only when the speakers can be effectively hidden from view without compromising the qualities needed for Ambisonics and for serious music reproduction will it have the potential to become part of the home system. Gerard Lardner On 13/04/2012 09:07, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 04/13/2012 03:49 AM, Robert Greene wrote: >> >> While the mode of expression is even more emphatic >> than my own, RCFA is to my mind right all up >> and down the line. Talking about 3rd order is >> just castles in the air. As a theoretical mathematician, >> I spend most of my life building castles in the air. >> But one ought to know that that is what they are! > > you know, for every email you guys write about this tired old topic, i > have _set up_ and _calibrated_ a higher order ambisonic system, and > believe me, that's way more exciting. > > can you please stick your heads out the window eventually? it's 2012, > bandwidth is ridiculously cheap, storage even more so [1]. there is > absolutely no valid argument to be made against very high orders > indeed for production and archival. get it in your heads that there is > a difference between what the consumer uses and what the production > format is. this is what ambisonics is all about: scalability. you get > to keep your meridians and your four quad speakers, and everyone can > just live happily ever after. > > [1] the only thing that's probably even cheaper is opinions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120413/04d2ec7f/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
